Stephanie Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor of education, served as the 2021–22 Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow.
As a fellow, Jones further developed her ongoing, public-facing project, Mapping Racial Trauma, creating a geospatial tool to present data documenting policies and activities that create hostile learning environments for Black students in public schools. Jones continued her well-established practice of incorporating students into her research, including but not limited to her collaboration with Vivero digital scholarship fellows. In addition, she worked on a book proposal for a related project, tentatively titled Ending Curriculum Violence.
Course Description
Professor Jones taught a two-credit short course, Mapping Racialized Trauma in Schools, in spring 2022. The course built on Jones’s research as well as past teaching, including The School-to-Prison Pipeline collaboration. The course combined a study of curriculum theory, critical geography, the afterlives of slavery and desegregation, and spatial analysis of racialized trauma in U.S. schools and how mapping and spatial analysis can help us to reclaim schools as sites of liberation.
Public Talk
“Mapping Racial Trauma: A Spatial Examination of Antiblackness in Schools”
In her lecture, Jones expounded upon the origins of curriculum violence in classrooms and its roots in antiblackness, perspectives that are typically overlooked in teacher education and faculty professional development. Using a framework of critical race spatial analysis, she considers new possibilities for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing the relationships between schools and other sites of antiblackness.